yeah, whatever.

I'm positive that over 80% of Americans do NOT:

• want someone else's rabbi, minister, priest, guru ... in their doctor's office,

• want someone else's rabbi, minister, priest, guru ... in their kids classroom dictating speech,

• want health access ONLY for fat cats,

• want rewards and surplus going ONLY to the well connected and to those born of the right womb,

• want hard work rewarded with penury after a normal life trauma like unemployment, divorce, old age ... especially so the well connected can live fat,

• want the government taking all your wealth when you work,

• want fat cat managers taking all the wealth from your efforts,

• an education system that benefits only fat cat kids,

• a society with no roads or no clean water or no sewage ...

Cuz we got sell outs and chickencraps for 'leaders.

Cuz WE keep electing sell outs adn chickencraps as leaders.

ugh.

I'll check obama's name off on the top of the ballot, but that is the only time I'll give to a dick morris approved sell out.

Obama, if he has any key political convictions (which I seriously doubt) ran his campaign as a combo of Kumbaya and Conservative Democrat.

So now what?  Some Dems promote McCain in the hopes of proving a point or punishing the party or enhancing Hillary's chances in four or eight years.  But we can't wait that long.  We are going bankrupt, and McCain will keep us on the sorry path we've been on for the past eight years.  

Somehow we have to get our party back together.  BTD is right - focus on the issues, and try to get the party/candidate/electorate to be in alignment with our core values.  The unmentionable cat movement is growing, and from arguments I read hear and on other blogs, the anti-Obama rhetoric is just reinforcing the anger.  I think it's time for PUMAs to do something besides encourage votes for McCain.  Either use your political clout to demand Obama put Hillary on the ticket or choose another third party candidate who the party can and will rally behind.  If McCain wins, especially if he wins because Hillary supporters won't vote Dem, the Obama half of the party isn't going to stick around.  You'll be on your own with half the political power you would have had with a united, or at least a cooperating Democratic party.

"Watch this!" while attempting to catch a rattlesnake in a paper cup.

But the general election is a clean slate: the start-over. The past for either candidate is not necessarily prologue. But let's propose what one change may be that could produce the result that at one time seemed unthinkable:  a Republican winning the election for President this year.

A) Attacking McCain the wrong way: all the surrogates questioning McCain's POW status as qualification have done nothing more than remind voters that he was a POW who endured years of torture. I doubt very much that anyone who was on the fence and thinking "I might vote for McCain" has recently thought "My God, Wes Clark is right about this." They are preaching to the choir only. No points gained here.

B) The move to the center. Well, this is always an easy one. If Obama is going to act like he is listening to his "inner" Republican, voters will do what they always do when a Democratic candidate starts talking like a Republican. Vote for the real Republican.

c) The McCain campaign starts firing on all cylinders. So far the McCain campaign has been rather tepid. Some see this as a weakness. Maybe not. In chess, the best players are very boring in the early game, just moving some pieces around, opening up some columns, nothing all that dramatic. Then comes the complete assault. Will the Obama campaign be ready for this? It is not going to be Hillary holding back on the most devastating blows. Brushing the dirt off the shoulder is not going to work now.

The whole "We're too easy on Barack" seems to be becoming an emerging meme from the M$M, and I do think that can seriously change the dynamics of this race if they are "shamed" into giving him typical Dem Nominee coverage.  It's something BO and his team need to keep an eye on.  Especially when you consider he hasn't always loved the media back, tricking them and leaving them on the plane while he spoke to Hilary in secret and kind of putting the blame on the media for misconstruing his Iraq position.  That stuff doesn't bother me, I thought what he did to the M$M on the plane was funny as H*ll, but I doubt that they we're laughing about it.

To paraphrase the old proverb, "What the M$M giveth, the M$M taketh away."

(I know BO supporters will start shouting "What about Wright?!"  That only proves my point, if he had been given the typical Dem Nominee treatment, it would have destroyed him.  Gore and Kerry we're raked and roasted over the coals for far, far, far less than that.  The whole Wright thing doesn't bother me all that much, as a Liberal I understand where he's coming from [although he was a little over the top with his criticism and conclusions], but most centrists, who Barack is courting the most lately, do not and will not have that same comprehension.)

This is a sign of trouble ahead IMHO.

Six frackin' points and the Repugs have barely shown up strikes me as verging on disastrous.

And regardless of how the poll question was worded, given the race-oriented arm-twisting TeamObie goes to for advantage, the question people are actually responding to is:

Do you support Barack Obama or are you a racist?

Voters don't have a problem electing pols not of their own particular race, creed, color, but Obama's team has exceedingly racialized and hot-buttoned this contest. I resent being targeted that way, and the assumption I can be pressured that way.

A flip-flop is when you change your entire position:

 - like going from pro-choice, to anti-choice;

• like going from opposing the war in Iraq, to supporting it;

• like going from anti-NAFTA to pro-NAFTA.

• like going from supporting illegal eavesdropping, to promoting it.

Speaking of Morris, he, not surprisingly, loves Obama's tack to the "middle":

Want a smile, vote for Obama, what the kids off the lawn, vote for McCain.